Following my recent A3 traffic survey, I met with representatives from National Highways on Esher High Street to discuss what we can do to reduce A3 traffic through our community.
The A3 runs through Esher and Walton constituency from the A3 / M25 junction at Wisley, to the Hook junction in Surbiton. The existing layout of the Hook junction prevents south-bound traffic from joining the A3 at Hook. This displaces significant volumes of traffic through Hinchley Wood, Long Ditton, Thames Ditton and Esher, via the Kingston Bypass. A recent traffic study in Esher showed that around 85% of traffic through Esher town centre was “through” traffic destined for the A3.
Results from my survey so far reveal that 96.68% of people support our campaign for improvements to be made and 91.82% feel that A3 traffic is having a negative impact on their quality of life. It was useful to feed this back to National Highways to demonstrate the strength of feeling and make the case for improvements to be made.
National Highways will be taking this away to discuss with colleagues and I will be following up with the Transport Secretary to see if we can get Government support for improvements to be put on the programme for works.
There is still time to feedback your views and let me know how A3 traffic is affecting you: https://www.thedominicraab.blog/a3.
